Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 617 475 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.51% 14.04% 9.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.81% 53.25% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 449 361 293
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £75,000 £77,650
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,347 892 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.39% 26.37% 23.12%
Number of salaries quoted 957 644 598
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,600
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,938 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +1 209 £60,000 +9.09% 112
Essex -3 137 £40,000 - 61
Cambridgeshire -17 125 £55,000 +52.78% 114
Suffolk +34 69 £39,875 -20.25% 33
Norfolk -1 51 £55,000 +10.00% 31
Bedfordshire -20 25 £38,250 +12.50% 35
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 107 (17.34%) SharePoint
2 53 (8.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.78%) WordPress
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.49%) IIS
4 3 (0.49%) SAS
5 2 (0.32%) Confluence
5 2 (0.32%) Luigi
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 37 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.32%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 204 (33.06%) Microsoft 365
2 120 (19.45%) Entra ID
3 80 (12.97%) Power Platform
4 74 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (11.67%) Azure AI
6 71 (11.51%) AWS
7 64 (10.37%) OneDrive
8 32 (5.19%) PowerApps
9 31 (5.02%) Power Automate
10 26 (4.21%) GitHub
11 25 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 24 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (3.40%) GCP
15 18 (2.92%) SaaS
16 17 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
18 13 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (12.48%) Firewall
2 68 (11.02%) DNS
3 53 (8.59%) DHCP
4 52 (8.43%) VPN
5 38 (6.16%) TCP/IP
6 18 (2.92%) Wireless
7 17 (2.76%) MQTT
8 12 (1.94%) Network Security
8 12 (1.94%) VLAN
8 12 (1.94%) WAN
9 11 (1.78%) Internet
9 11 (1.78%) LAN
9 11 (1.78%) VoIP
10 8 (1.30%) PBX
11 7 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.65%) DMZ
12 4 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.32%) Broadband
13 2 (0.32%) SSL
13 2 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (15.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 59 (9.56%) Power BI
3 56 (9.08%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.54%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (3.40%) Tableau
7 12 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.78%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.65%) MySQL
11 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.32%) Big Data
12 2 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.32%) Metadata
12 2 (0.32%) Redis
12 2 (0.32%) Spatial Data
13 1 (0.16%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (3.73%) Git
2 11 (1.78%) JIRA
3 5 (0.81%) Selenium
3 5 (0.81%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.49%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.49%) git-flow
4 3 (0.49%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.32%) GitLab
5 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.32%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.16%) ERwin
6 1 (0.16%) JMeter
6 1 (0.16%) Postman
6 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.16%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 269 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 60 (9.72%) Finance
3 26 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (2.27%) Legal
5 13 (2.11%) Marketing
5 13 (2.11%) Retail
6 12 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (1.94%) Law
7 11 (1.78%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.46%) Games
10 6 (0.97%) Advertising
10 6 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.65%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.49%) Aviation
13 3 (0.49%) Banking
14 2 (0.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 147 (23.82%) Developer
2 110 (17.83%) IT Support
3 85 (13.78%) Analyst
4 81 (13.13%) .NET Developer
5 79 (12.80%) Support Engineer
6 77 (12.48%) IT Engineer
7 66 (10.70%) Senior
8 65 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
9 50 (8.10%) Junior
10 46 (7.46%) Junior Analyst
11 34 (5.51%) Lead
12 30 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (4.86%) Senior Developer
13 29 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
13 29 (4.70%) Network Engineer
14 28 (4.54%) Consultant
14 28 (4.54%) Graduate
15 26 (4.21%) Security Analyst
16 24 (3.89%) 2nd Line Support
16 24 (3.89%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (18.80%) .NET
2 93 (15.07%) .NET Core
3 77 (12.48%) ASP.NET
3 77 (12.48%) ASP.NET Core
4 59 (9.56%) RESTful
5 56 (9.08%) CSS
6 51 (8.27%) HTML
7 34 (5.51%) Entity Framework
7 34 (5.51%) React
8 30 (4.86%) ML.NET
9 28 (4.54%) Blazor
9 28 (4.54%) Node.js
10 24 (3.89%) Terraform
11 22 (3.57%) AngularJS
12 21 (3.40%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (3.24%) FastAPI
13 20 (3.24%) Vue
14 18 (2.92%) Kafka
14 18 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
14 18 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.48%) Driving Licence
2 39 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 31 (5.02%) Cloud Native
4 20 (3.24%) Cyberattack
5 15 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.13%) CCTV
11 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.13%) iPhone
11 7 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.97%) Digital TV
12 6 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.97%) PKI
12 6 (0.97%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.81%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 156 (25.28%) Windows
2 89 (14.42%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.27%) Linux
3 14 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.78%) Android
5 11 (1.78%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.62%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.32%) Unix
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (20.75%) AI
2 122 (19.77%) Agile
3 116 (18.80%) Cybersecurity
4 98 (15.88%) DevOps
5 90 (14.59%) Mentoring
6 89 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (12.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 78 (12.64%) CI/CD
9 64 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 52 (8.43%) Machine Learning
12 42 (6.81%) Roadmaps
13 41 (6.65%) Cloud Security
14 40 (6.48%) Service Delivery
15 39 (6.32%) Containerisation
16 38 (6.16%) Computer Science
17 37 (6.00%) Migration
18 35 (5.67%) ITIL
18 35 (5.67%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 186 (30.15%) SQL
2 142 (23.01%) C#
3 95 (15.40%) Python
4 57 (9.24%) PowerShell
5 53 (8.59%) JavaScript
6 39 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.08%) PHP
8 14 (2.27%) C++
9 10 (1.62%) Java
10 9 (1.46%) Bicep
11 7 (1.13%) Rust
12 6 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.65%) Bash
14 3 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.49%) Ruby
14 3 (0.49%) Scala
15 2 (0.32%) Go
16 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 128 (20.75%) Azure Certification
2 78 (12.64%) Degree
3 35 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.38%) CompTIA Security+
6 26 (4.21%) CCNA
7 23 (3.73%) Network+ Certification
8 20 (3.24%) CEH
8 20 (3.24%) CompTIA CySA+
9 14 (2.27%) Security Cleared
10 9 (1.46%) CCNP
10 9 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.30%) SC Cleared
12 6 (0.97%) CISSP
13 5 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.49%) A+ Certification
14 3 (0.49%) CCSK
14 3 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.02%) QA
2 26 (4.21%) SLA
3 24 (3.89%) GDPR
4 22 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.27%) NIST
7 13 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.30%) NCSC
9 7 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.97%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.81%) GRC
11 5 (0.81%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.65%) PMO
13 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.16%) HL7
14 1 (0.16%) IFRS
14 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 142 (23.01%) Active Directory
2 41 (6.65%) Docker
3 38 (6.16%) Hyper-V
4 30 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (12.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (6.97%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.13%) SCCM
4 5 (0.81%) Ansible
5 3 (0.49%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.49%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 430 (69.69%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.72%) ForeScout
3 46 (7.46%) Cisco
4 35 (5.67%) VMware
5 26 (4.21%) Apple
6 21 (3.40%) Google
7 13 (2.11%) Adobe
7 13 (2.11%) Facebook
7 13 (2.11%) Meraki
8 10 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.62%) Ubiquiti
9 9 (1.46%) Veeam
10 7 (1.13%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.13%) SonicWALL
11 6 (0.97%) Databricks
12 5 (0.81%) Sony
12 5 (0.81%) Yahoo!
13 4 (0.65%) Citrix
13 4 (0.65%) Draytek
13 4 (0.65%) Sophos